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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Metaphor
Setting
Foil
Simile
2. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Setting
Folklore
Protagonist
Situational Irony
3. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.
Voice
Blank Verse
Myth
Villanelle
4. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.
Narrative Poem
Closed Form
Allusion
Oxymoron
5. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.
Epic
Aubade
Denotation
Closed Form
6. Broken down acts.
Onomatopoeia
Comic Relief
Scenes
Climax
7. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Rising Action
Tone
Foot
Figurative Language
8. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Pyrrhic
Satire
Internal Conflict
Situational Irony
9. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Style
Verbal Irony
Point of View
Antagonist
10. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.
Paradox
Understatement
Structure
Complication
11. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Subplot
Personification
Epiphany
Mood
12. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
External Conflict
Personification
Character
Quatrain
13. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Sonnet
Subject
Syntax
Octave
14. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Ballad
Syntax
Denouement
Rising Action
15. A strong pause within a line.
Conflict
Caesura
Rhyme
Voice
16. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Mood
Exposition
Diction
Image
17. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.
Literal Language
Lyric Poem
Style
Denotation
18. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Stanza
Falling Action
Character
Flashback
19. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Parody
Villanelle
Legend
20. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Lyric Poem
Aubade
Foot
Style
21. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.
Literal Language
Simile
Denotation
Allegory
22. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Reversal
Foot
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Ode
23. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Free Verse
Trochee
Symbolism
Lyric Poem
24. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Parody
Octave
Theme
Characterization
25. A brief witty poem - often satirical.
Epigram
Rhyme
Ode
Protagonist
26. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Paradox
Sestina
Iamb
Reversal
27. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Metaphor
Parallelism
Epic
Narrative Poem
28. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Aubade
Denotation
Plot
Hyperbole
29. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Allusion
Mood
Denouement
Plot
30. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Motif
Anapest
Plot
31. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Stereotype
Meter
Voice
Act
32. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
Assonance
Satire
Analogy
Dialogue
33. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Foreshadowing
Apostrophe
Narrator
Plot
34. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Myth
Sonnet
Mood
Dramatic Irony
35. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Synecdoche
Hyperbole
Narrative Poem
Motif
36. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
Legend
Caesura
Understatement
Imagery
37. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.
Falling Meter
Audience
Aside
Metonymy
38. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Sestet
Literal Language
Metaphor
Allusion
39. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Dialect
Free Verse
Recognition
Synecdoche
40. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Lyric Poem
Ode
Foil
Verbal Irony
41. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Lyric Poem
Complication
Legend
Apostrophe
42. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Satire
Repetition
Free Verse
Parody
43. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.
Falling Meter
Suspense
Satire
Author's Purpose
44. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Falling Meter
Epiphany
Connotation
Rhythm
45. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Elision
Verbal Irony
Legend
Flashback
46. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Allusion
Sestina
Oxymoron
Alliteration
47. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
Free Verse
Plot
Motif
3rd Person (Limited)
48. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Legend
Characterization
Iamb
Dactyl
49. The conversation of characters in a literary work.
Dactyl
Octave
Epic
Dialogue
50. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Rising Action
Spondee
Foreshadowing
Audience
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